Leslie Moonves Quotes
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.
